Public bug reported: It appears that a broken symlink is shipped instead of the actual openbios image:
$ qemu-system-sparc64 phobos.raw qemu: could not load prom 'openbios-sparc64' $ dpkg-query -S openbios-sparc64 qemu-system-sparc: /usr/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64 $ ls -la /usr/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Feb 12 22:11 /usr/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64 -> ../openbios/openbios-sparc64 $ ls -la /usr/share/openbios ls: cannot access /usr/share/openbios: No such file or directory $ apt-cache policy qemu-system-sparc qemu-system-sparc: Installed: 1.3.0+dfsg-5expubuntu2 Candidate: 1.3.0+dfsg-5expubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.3.0+dfsg-5expubuntu2 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) Release: 13.04 ** Affects: qemu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1125540 Title: openbios-sparc64 missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1125540/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs